We want to thank everyone that supported us at our annual pasta dinner. Once again the affair was a great success and we hope everyone in attendance had a good time. It also was the night we announced the winner of our Dog of the Year contest. We want to congratulate Mrs. Jones and her proud owner, Sandy Anderson.
Mrs. Jones came to the Cumberland County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals shelter back in March 2014. She was found tied up in the woods along a running trail in Millville. She was a beautiful, cropped ear American Staffordshire terrier, and we found it hard to understand how anyone could abandon this sweetheart of a dog. She is the epitome of what a Staffy should be: a generously loving personality, strong physical build and always happy to be involved with whatever mom is up to –including fostering litters of kittens!
Sandy Anderson got involved with our shelter a few years ago and has become an invaluable volunteer, participating in all sorts activities to support the animals. If you visit our website, one of the first things you’ll see and hear is one the soundtracks from the many videos that Sandy and her husband, Eric, have produced, written and performed the music for. Go to the “Adoptable Cats” page on the site and you’ll find many of the pictures there were taken by Sandy. Often we’ll see her running into the shelter on her lunch hour to snap a few photos or pick up supplies for the many foster animals she’s taken in over the years.
During the 2015 Dog of the Year contest, Sandy and Mrs. Jones broke new ground in campaigning for the top dog award. Typically, contestants and their owners go to an event or two, such as a wine festival or some type of community event, to raise donations in their dog’s name. These funds are used to care for the homeless and abused animals that the CCSPCA and South Jersey Regional Animal Shelter care for and investigate. They also have a spot on our website where they can raise online donations. Sandy blew it out of the water this year, attending a couple dozen events, utilizing her own social network, selling T-shirts she had printed up and offering small giveaway items like stuffed animals when donations were made to Mrs. Jones’ campaign. In the end, Sandy raised over $4,000 for the shelter!
Source: How one dog raised $4,000 for Cumberland County SPCA